LOL! The picture that made in my head was truly priceless...  ;D

I’m glad you all like it. I’m actually quite happy with the progress myself. The build’s been going along much faster and smoother than I had dared hope. In fact, I’m getting close to the part of the build that I dread the most: greenstuffing. I’ve got quite a few gaps to fill in and I need to rebuild the welding-seams going around the top of the turret and I need to take them down along the edges of the glacis plate. That’s not going to be any fun at all. Last time I did that much greenstuffing at once was when I was building my 1/100 scale “Ratte”. And I had some real difficulties getting the greenstuff smoothed down again...

Perhaps I should try brownstuff this time...?

To tell you the truth, I’m sooooooo tempted to cover the tank in zimmerit in order to avoid all the tedious detailing and grinding. But that would be completely out of place on a vehicle that would realistically not have been in service until late 1946 or thereabout...

In any case, here’s a small update from today’s work. I’ve filled in the missing areas on the top of the casemate, installed a shot-deflector, and kit-bashed the barrel. With the barrel loosely fitted into place (I won’t glue it in until after I’ve painted the tank), you can begin to appreciate the size of this thing. From breach to the tip of the barrel, the length of the gun itself is a whopping 9 m. - as long as the tank itself. And with the gun installed partly retracted into the chassis, the tank itself measures just above 14 m. from exhaust to the tip of the barrel. Quite a monster, this thing, being almost 50% longer, wider, and heavier than the Jagdtiger.